For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
"
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
"
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
"
If you know the why, you can live any how.
"
Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
"
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
"
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
"
Art is the proper task of life.
"
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
"
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
"
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will g...
"
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
"
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
"
Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...
"
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
